CLARKSVILLE, TN – McLean Fahnestock, Austin Peay State University associate professor of art, was one of only nine Tennessee artists recently awarded a 2022 Current Art Fund Grant. Fahnestock works in digital and immersive media. She will embark on a project that will use augmented reality to tell the story of four of the towns relocated during the construction of the TVA dams.
The nine $7,500 grants were awarded to Brittney Boyd Bullock (Memphis), Fahnestock (Nashville), Jessica Ingram (Nashville), Lawrence Matthews (Memphis), Vanessa Mayoraz (Johnson City), Lester Merriweather (Memphis), Raymond Padrón (Chattanooga), Sisavanh Phouthavong Houghton (Murfreesboro), and Andrew Scott Ross (Johnson City).
Grantees were selected by this year’s jury panelists: James McAnally (Executive + Artistic Director of Counterpublic, St. Louis, MO), Althea Murphy-Price (Artist + Professor of Printmaking, University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi (Artist, Johannesburg, South Africa), and Elliot Perry (Art Collector, Memphis).